Watch as crews bring down most of Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge in Big Sur on Saturday, March 18, 2017. The bridge cracked and shifted during recent winter storms and could not be repaired. This video was taken by Stan Russell, executive director of Big

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Watch as crews bring down most of Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge in Big Sur on Saturday, March 18, 2017. The bridge cracked and shifted during recent winter storms and could not be repaired. This video was taken by Stan Russell, executive director of Big

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After a rocky start, construction crews demolished about two-thirds of the cracking Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge in Big Sur on Saturday, leaving a gaping hole in the middle of the Highway 1 bridge.

Crews knocked down the infrastructure’s two fractured columns, Caltrans District 5 spokeswoman Susana Cruz said Saturday evening. Videos of the demolition show debris — which will be reused in the new bridge or recycled — falling into the canyon below.

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Work on bringing down the rest of the bridge will resume Monday, when crews will focus on breaking the final, more intact column and clearing the wreckage, Cruz said. It may take the entire week to finish the process, Cruz said, and rain expected to move into the Central Coast could delay the work further.

Plans for the new bridge have been approved, Cruz said, and shipments for the new steel shipments have begun to arrive.

The new bridge, contracted by Golden State Engineering and designed by Caltrans Structure Design, will cost between $20 million and $21 million, Cruz said.

Take a look at the debris left behind after much of Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge in Big Sur was demolished and plummeted to the canyon below on Saturday, March 18, 2017. The bridge cracked and shifted during recent rains, and officials declared the brid